MIL bit rude to nursery staff...

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I really like my DP's mother, we get on and have good chats about books. However, she is pretty anxious and tends to over dramatise sometimes.

She is looking after nearly 13 month old DD 1 morning a week, then taking her to nursery for the afternoon session. (I realise it's a lot, and MIL is always tired afterwards :/ but she does want to do it!) Anyway, yesterday the nursery kept her waiting outside for 20 minutes before taking DD from her - she was apparently in pain from standing and 'spoke sharply' to DD's key worker when she appeared. I think it was a super busy time for drop offs, and obviously due to covid regulations we've all got to wait, though it's obviously far from ideal...
I felt bad for both her and (lovely) key worker! and I do just think that it would be easier to do a full day of nursery. However, it would be a stretch to afford it and I don't think MIL would be happy...

WIBU to carry on as is? People pleaser

When does your DD nap? Once my kids dropped to one nap (around 13m ish) they took it after lunch, so they always did mornings at nursery as I’m a sahm and don’t need full day care and why would I pay for them to nap there?

Those days were awesome as they did nursery 9-12 and then straight home and nap for 2 hours normally until 2 or 3pm.

A morning session definitely sounds better. When ds1 was that age he did 2 mornings at nursery, he had one short nap there around 9am, I'd collect him at 1pm and he'd go in his cot and sleep for another 2 hours.